Top 10 Offbeat Stories of the Day – March 26th 2012

Man in a chicken suit…, Homos*xual necrophiliac…, Cat v. Alligator…, The Great Tablet Flood…, herd of Holstein cows…, Idea of an iPad…, Japanese boat spotted more than a year later…, A Billion-Euro House…, Thief accidentally…, When engineering fails…

1. Man in a chicken suit asked opinion on court case by reporter.

Homos*xual serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who s*xually abused his dead victims’ corpses has proved he can be a productive member of society by helping blind children learn science. Nilsen murdered at least 15 men and boys between 1978 and 1983 by strangling or drowning them before storing their bodies for s*xual purposes and possibly eating parts of them. The corpses were eventually dismembered, fed to wild animals, burned on bonfires or flushed down the toilet.

Nature enforces the purpose of raw cow’s milk by putting all sorts of bacteria, viruses, and parasites in it that humans are unable to handle.”Actually the only thing people really have issues with is lactose, the sugar in milk.

There’s no denying that devices like the iPad, Kindle and Nook have dramatically changed the way that many people consume media. Last year, online retailer Amazon announced that electronic book sales had surpassed print book sales for the first time in history.

Euros here, euros there. Euros in the fireplace. Euros on the floor, on the chairs, in the windows. Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Ireland’s Central Bank, forming the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the country’s economic ruin.

Authorities say a Connecticut man accidentally dialed 911 from his cellphone while stealing about 700 pounds of scrap metals. Police say the 46-year-old man was arrested after the robbery from a Southington merchant.

As long as humans have been building, they’ve been failing too. Society and civilization, from the first irrigation systems to the Brooklyn Bridge, have been designed by a flawed culture. Sometimes, even with today’s technology, design fails. Bridges collapse, ships sink, apartment buildings crumble. As we build even more daring structures, the likelihood of disaster increases, unless we’re willing to learn from past failures instead of focusing only on past success.